Sanctity of Marriage Watch

Ricky Santorum, who believes that allowing gay people to marry signals the impending collapse of Western civilization if not the Apocalypse itself, is working hard to re-elect an adulterous House member who allegedly assaulted his mistress.  A spokeswoman had no comment on the obvious incongruity.

This is funnier than anything else I have written this week.

Comments

[North Dallas Thirty]

Oh, I can do even better than that, Mal:

Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean on May 2 fired the party's gay outreach advisor Donald Hitchcock less than a week after Hitchcock's domestic partner, Paul Yandura, a longtime party activist, accused Dean of failing to take stronger action to defend gays.......

"It was not retaliation," Finney said of Hitchcock's dismissal. "It was decided we needed a change. We decided to hire a proven leader."

Hitchcock declined comment Tuesday night except to confirm that Dean informed him May 2 through a surrogate that he had been terminated. He said he was considering consulting an attorney to decide whether to contest the firing.

"This is retaliation, plain and simple," said Yandura. "This shows what they think about domestic partners."

Yandura said Tuesday night that Dean was using Hitchcock as a "scapegoat" for problems of Dean's own making.

"All I did was ask questions about what the party and Dean are doing about its GLBT constituency, Yandura said. "I have yet to see any answers."

Hitchcock's dismissal came after Yaundura created a stir among party activists, both gay and straight, by sending an open letter on April 20 to gay Democrats criticizing Dean and the party for not getting involved in state ballot measures seeking to ban gay marriage.

Yandura charged that the DNC failed to counter efforts by Republicans to promote the anti-gay ballot measures as a wedge issue to win elections. He suggested that gays withhold donations to the Democrats until the party formally addresses issues he raised.

And that's what happens to those who stray off the plantation -- especially those who advocate withholding money until the Dems put theirs where their mouth is.

[Malcontent]

Not that I will defend the DNC, based on that story, but I criticize liberals when they try to divert attention away from the issue at hand, and I will criticize you for it too.

I'm sick of "yeah, but the other guy is worse" politics.

[Aatom]

i agree, Mal, when partisan rhetoric consists mainly of finding weaknesses on the other side of the aisle, you end up playing a game of Who Can Set The Bar The Lowest? Then all you end up with is a bunch of total losers. Which is pretty much where we stand today.

i saw a great interview with the kid who wrote The K Street Gang on The Daily Show, and to his credit Jon was fairly sympathetic to the conservative author. He seems to think that there ARE some decent politicians in the Beltway, but that his party has been hijacked by power-hungry theocrats. he's right, of course, but once the 'good guys' get into power they are more than likely going to turn out the same. remember when the Gingrich conservatives were going to clean up Washington? How did that ever turn out, anyway?

[Tommy]

Changing the subject avoids things one does not like but it just ends up looking weak, or worse, is a true sign of weakness. (eg. Now let's go after gays so we don't have to deal with our challenges and failures.)

Tommy - Athens, Greece

[Tommy]

Changing the subject avoids things one does not like but it just ends up looking weak, or worse, is a true sign of weakness. (eg. Now let's go after gays so we don't have to deal with our challenges and failures.)

Tommy - Athens, Greece

[North Dallas Thirty]

Not that I will defend the DNC, based on that story, but I criticize liberals when they try to divert attention away from the issue at hand, and I will criticize you for it too.

That's a fair criticism, Mal, but it wasn't my point to divert attention away from Sherwood and Santorum. I was responding to the "funnier than anything else I have written".

Feel free to blast away at them on the matter. If I'm not supposed to care about the President of the United States having an extramarital affair, I fail to see why I should waste time on a House member who does.